Every Man’s Sky With Ascent – The Space Game MMO
Ascent – The Space Game is an indie MMO where players can explore over 270 billion star systems. So players can literally both boldly go where no one has gone before, and also play constantly for years without ever learning even half of the universe’s many secrets.
Reviewing The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
With a plot that strongly resembles the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, The Fire Rose, Book One of the Elemental Master Series by Mercedes Lackey is an interesting take in the urban fantasy genre.
Game Noir Goodness With Blues and Bullets
Presented as an episodic gangster-era adventure, Blues and Bullets is an interesting take on detective-style gaming, with a gritty art and voice-work style to compliment the story. Get ready for a film noir type experience and a gritty story punctuated with lead.
Learning the Shadow Arts
Billy’s Time Waster this week had him tackling Shadow Arts, a hack-n-slash type of game with some turn-based RPG elements thrown in.
Whimsical Groundhog Day-esque Fun With Stories: The Path of Destinies
Normally when you don’t like the ending to a story there isn’t much you can do about it. Stories: The Path of Destinies however, encourages you to rewrite the book until you get it right in this genuinely entertaining fairy tale about a fox who doesn’t want to know the odds.
Cast off for Nautical Adventure with Starspawn
As the upcoming sequel to Hugo Award Winner Wendy N. Wagner’s Skinwalkers, Michael takes a look at Pathfinder Tales: Starspawn this week. Be ready for pirates and adventure, because even though hero Jendara plots a path of peaceful atonement, it won’t come anytime soon.
Dodge Playing Coffin Dodgers
Coffin Dodgers seems to have a lot going for it, with a funny plot and a Diddy Kong-like gameplay, but frame rate and stuttering problems on the PlayStation 4 should make this one a definite pass for nearly all players.
Fight As The US Marines In Order of Battle: US Marines DLC
The Battle is Joined! On the anniversary of D-Day, we take a look at the new DLC for the Order of Battle Pacific strategy game, the US Marines. If you thought the war was hell before, try conquering the campaigns that the Marines had to manage. This amazing sequel should appeal to armchair generals everywhere.
Dark Sword is a Copycat
This week our Time Waster is checking out a mobile game called Dark Sword that borrows a little too heavily from the Dark Souls series.
A Grand Finale for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End may be flawed, but its moments of brilliance far outshine those niggles. This is a series that’s going out, when it’s still at the top of its game.